Turn off anti-aliasing when rotating / scaling etc... ?

Hi

Is this possible? I've got a clip which i'm rotating a little. It's deliberately pixellated and rough looking, and once rotated FCP adds anti-aliasing to the image. I know this is usually helpful but is there a way to turn it off? i've tried sharpening but it's not the same

Hope someone can help

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Nov 23, 2009 4:52 AM

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Nov 23, 2009 11:17 AM in response to sborelli

Studio X, thanks for your smug reply. Just to repeat, for the final time, which many seemed to get (and I am very grateful for their ideas), this is a project where the final image is supposed to be imperfect, with noise, compression errors, and artifacts. The tripod 'error' in the original footage is that it was levelled correctly, and for the artistic purposes of this piece I want to introduce an intentional rotation. I didn't really want to go into that detail because it wasn't my question.

The digital noise and grain I am trying to preserve is also intentional, and that's why I asked this question - I didn't want FCP to smooth it out. It's fine that FCP can't do that, and yes it is good that on most occasions the smoothing which occurs is wanted.

It is, however, completely possible to render out a rotated image, without anti-aliasing, and without asking people to turn their heads, in After Effects. You set on draft mode so the program doesn't add anything. I am now rendering out exactly that (for the next god-knows how many hours!). Was just asking if that were possible in FCP.

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